Is the Earth spinning, or is it just me?

I got up at 6:30 AM this morning in order to be able to bus down to McCarran International Airport before 8:30 AM. I arrived in time to change from comfortable sneakers to uncomfortable casual dress shoes. I filled out my paperwork, dropped one paper off at the Metro Police station in the airport and the other at the Finger Printing station and had my finger prints scanned (A cool process). My finger prints are now in a federal database (or three). :-(

I left McCarran on a bus at 9 AM. By 10:15 AM I was in a Manpower office in west Las Vegas. By 1 PM I was out of there, having tested my MS Word & Excel knowledge, typing speed as well as getting leads on a few positions at Bechtel (mostly support for their engineers) [It was an ego stroke to have my Staffing Assistant get excited over my resume and test scores. Ego strokes from strangers are nice.] and a temporary labor job working for an HVAC (Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning) installation company. I should get at least 8 paid hours both on Thursday and Friday. $9/hr.

The Bechtel positions will require another background check and could take weeks to receive an answer as to whether I am hired.

The repairs on my Windstar are finished. It will wait at the mechanic's shop until I can pay $450.

I took the bus to the local coin operated laundry. While waiting for the bus I noticed the beautiful, white, puffy clouds rolling across the valley. Frenchman's Mountain east of Vegas was in sharp definition from the rays of the setting sun. The canyons and chasms were in sharp relief. The geological strata picked out in rusty earth tones. I looked west and saw the sun cutting through the clouds which were piled up around the peak of Mt. Charleston. I realized that the sky was beautiful, and if I were on vacation I would have been entranced by it. I decided to try to make a change. The sky was beautiful, why let the events of my life color this moment? I spent my wait for the bus enjoying nature's show in the sky. Today I tried to recapture that time by enjoying the new cloud formations.

I wish that more of my friends would read my live journal. However, I guess that is my problem. :-|